Charities: Finance

Maria Miller: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what estimate he has made of the funding received by all charities from the Government in each year since 1997.

Phil Hope: Both central and local government spend significant sums of money on charities and other third sector organisations every year. The following amounts were received by the sector.
	
		
			   Amounts received by sector (£ million) 
			 1997-98 5,550 
			 1998-99 6,080 
			 999-2000 6,620 
			 2000-01 8,096 
			 2001-02 8,504 
			 2002-03 8,835 
			 2003-04 9,165 
			 2004-05 9,541 
			 2005-06 11,050